88th Precinct

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Ugly mugs

Two women were mugged at gunpoint in two late-night incidents in Clinton Hill last week

In the first attack, a woman surrendered her pocketbook to a man with a silver handgun on Greene Avenue at 11:30 pm on Nov. 19. The stickup occurred between Clinton and Waverly avenues and the 29-year-old victim lost her phone, $5, and various banking and credit cards.

Two night later, a duo mugged a woman on Classon Avenue between Madison and Monroe streets at around 11:15 pm.

The hoodlums surrounded the 26-year-old victim, and one whipped out a firearm while the others demanded her purse. The thieves got away with an iPod, $25, her drivers license and a debit card.

Halls of injustice

School overcrowding doesn’t just hurt the quality of education, it also leads to theft.

A teacher forcing her way through a teeming hallway on Nov. 19 arrived in her classroom to find that some quick-fingered cadger had swiped a phone and Metrocard from her purse. The pilfering occurred at around 2:20 pm in the Catholic high school between Greene and Lafayette avenues.

Rob job

An attempted bank robbery on Myrtle Avenue was abandoned as suddenly as it began on Nov. 20

The culprit slipped a note to a teller at 11:30 am that said; “This is a robbery (big bills). Now I don’t want to hurt no one. Hurry!!! No bulls—!!!”

But moments later, the man fled the bank between Waverly and Washington avenues before getting any money.

Buy-pod

A thief stole a bushel of Apple gadgets between Oct. 26 and Nov. 17 from a national retailer on Flatbush Avenue that is a frequent target of shoplifters.

According to an employee who reported the Apple-pickin’ banditry, someone who had access to store keys for the electronics display case stole 22 iPods from the chain store in the Bruce Ratner-owned mall between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue.

Honda discord

A car thief stole a Honda Accord parked on Waverly Avenue overnight on Nov. 17.

According to the owner, he parked his 2001 foreign vehicle between DeKalb and Lafayette avenues at 6 pm, but by 7:30 the next morning, it was gone.

— Mike McLaughlin

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